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Click to view larger Paulette, Annette, and Ashley, staying warm by the fire. Currently camped at University Congregational Church, the 100-person tent camp Nickelsville is looking for a permanent site. "It started out with two people under a viaduct ...

For 15 years, Tom Gore made a good living selling used cars. Before that, back in Texas, he ran his own concrete business. Both jobs, he says, depend on the kindness of the "Yes, sirs" and "No, ma'ams" that pepper Gore's Sout ...

Click to view larger Where the sidewalk ends: construction is stalled at an unfinished portion of Rainier Vista, right, while in the background new housing is complete It's been six years since bulldozers started tearing down the low-income duplexes ...

Wed., Jan. 21, 5:24 p.m., George Washington Memorial Bridge, Aurora Ave. Subject, a transient white male aged 57, was contacted on the west side of the Aurora Bridge at 5:30 p.m. Subject had just called the Crisis Clinic from a bridge phone and told them ...

Click to view larger Parents, children, and teachers march from the Central District's T.T. Minor Elementary School to Garfield Community Center on Sun., Jan. 25, in a rally to stop the closure and conversion of T.T. Minor and eight other public scho ...

Click to view larger On Jan. 22, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the detention camp at Guant Hope has hardened into expectation. Liberals everywhere are now counting on Barack Obama to shut down Guant ...

When the City of Seattle last year began an effort to remove destitute people and their tents, sleeping bags, blankets, backpacks, and other gear from city-owned property, they not only created a new problem for those with nowhere else to lay their heads. ...

If the Seattle Housing Authority stays on course, the redevelopment it's planning for First Hill's low-income Yesler Terrace public housing will not only include a half-dozen commercial office buildings of seven to 14 stories, but housing units ...

Legislation aimed at preventing the state from releasing foster youth, prison inmates and mental patients to homelessness has picked up a sponsor: State Rep. Mark Miloscia, D-Federal Way, who introduced it Jan. 21 as House Bill 1488. In the short term, th ...

Thurs., Jan. 15, 5 a.m., Pine St., Paramount theater. A group of seven sleepers was contacted for trespass- ing at the Paramount Theater on Pine St. Officers contacted a suspect, a transient white male aged 35, who was found to have an outstanding warrant ...